Former Mueller prosecutor says the special counsel let down the public and describes Trump as 'an animal' in new book
Former Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller arrives to testify before Congress on July 24, 2019, in Washington, DC.Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor on the special counsel Robert Mueller's team, offered a scathing review of Mueller's handling of the probe and the actions of President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr in an upcoming tell-all.
Asked whether Mueller had let down the American public, Weissmann told The Atlantic: "Absolutely, yep."Andrew Weissmann, a prosecutor who worked on the former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, offers a scathing account of Mueller's handling of the probe, President Donald Trump, and Attorney General William Barr.
Barr's letter describing Mueller's findings said the special counsel found "no collusion" between Trump and Russia — a non-legal term that Trump and his allies often amplified. The attorney general also cleared Trump of obstruction of justice, even though Mueller's office declined to make a judgment in the matter.
Overall, he wrote in his book that the Russia probe was hampered by its own internal strife and a special counsel who held back out of fear that Trump would shut down the office altogether and pardon associates who were charged.
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